SCALE OF VENUE
Small to medium

PERMANENT STAFF
Choreographer/Manager
Henrietta Hale
Choreographer/Manager
Ben Ash
Choreographer/Manager
Rachel Lopez de la Nieta

ARTISTIC POLICY
Dog Kennel Hill Project brings together the skills and experience of Henrietta Hale, Ben Ash, and Rachel Lopez de la Nieta. The investigation, collaboration, and risk-taking of the company generates surprising and intriguing dance. With a curiosity for the processes of other art forms, the Dog Kennel Hill Project embraces cross-disciplinary exchange, revealing dance from new perspectives.

REVIEW EXTRACTS
Their style is very easy and pleasing, swooping and graceful, laidback yet intricate…delightful to watch and listen to.
Lindsey Clarke, londondance.com (In This World)
This was amusing, with committed, amusing performances. Baffling, but watchable.
Londondance.com (Man or Fish)
Hale showed her talent for exposing the comedy and poignancy of the most simple gesture. Sophie Hansen, Resolution Review (On the road to...)

CURRENT PRODUCTIONS
The Odd Honesty Code
In a makeshift Foley studio, four dancers tell and retell mythical stories: movement, live sound, music, and text are woven together to create mysterious shifting perspectives and intriguing scenarios.
45mins – no interval, 4 people on stage, 2 crew
A Cross and the Across.
Centred around the word devotion the work has an epic sense of ritual, explored simultaneously through a solo and a duet. One forms a framework/backdrop in which to view the other.
15 mins, 3 on stage, 1 crew

FUTURE PRODUCTIONS
The Conferring Series (Research title_{) .}Opening April 2009
Explores power, survival and vulnerability within performance using the metaphor of a conversation to draw out energetic qualities and tensions in the act of exchanging.
(30 mins) 2 on stage, 2 crew

WRAP-AROUND
Post performance discussions – usually chaired by a host organisation, these events unravel the ideas, processes and collaborative method that make up, and emerge from the work. 2–3 hour workshop/master-classes – can be adapted for schools age 15+ or professionals – Based on The Odd Honesty Code, these give an experiential insight into some for the company’s working processes involving a mixture of taught material, improvisation structures and creative tasks. Longer residencies – We are particularly interested in delivering residences for groups that involve working through a creative process for a period (i.e. 1 week) with the option of leading to a performance opportunity.

RECENT INTERNATIONAL WORK
2008 Holland, Utrecht Man or Fish
2007 France, The odd Honesty Code
2007 Italy, Man or Fish
2007 Germany, A Cross and the Across

TOURING AVAILABILITY
The Odd Honesty Code: April 2009 – December 2009
A Cross and the Across: April 2009 – December 2009